Steam Locomotives

Laurent Chevreux, Wim Plaizier, Christian Schuh, Wayne Brown and Alenka Triplat

Chapter Chapter 8 in Corporate Plasticity, 2014, pp 47-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The year 1689 saw the first commercial application to the millennia-old idea to use boiling water to produce mechanical motion. What started in Thomas Savery’s water pump evolved into the main power source of the industrial revolution over the subsequent 150 years or so.

Keywords: United States; Industrial Manufacturer; Boiling Water; Commercial Application; Industrial Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-6748-5_8

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